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uring a business meeting, a lady in front of me glanced at the watch and excused herself. She must call her son’s teachers at summer camp; they must not forget to give him gluten free food. “Oh,” I said, “he has a coeliac disease?” She gave me a short, surprised look meaning: ‘How dare you … [>>>>>>>]

Sometimes, there are good news in the newspapers. This one is about the good police work in the times of terrorism and common negativism: Imagine one of the elite detectives of the serious crime division opening the fridge – and the cream cakes are gone! “Who stole my cakes?” he asks. His colleagues are viewing … [>>>>>>>]

It was Saturday morning and I was having breakfast in the hotel restaurant, sitting in the corner with the view of two rooms. In the first, drunken man was barely standing, trying to steady his hand in Nazi salute, occasionally shouting “Heil Hitler!”. In the second, a man was swaying, unable to sit or stand, … [>>>>>>>]